ADAFRUIT TRINKET M0

PID# 16438

CA$15.00

This tiny microcontroller board is built around the Atmel ATSAMD21, a little chip with a lot of power. It is designed to be a microcontroller board that is small enough to fit into any project, and low cost enough to use without hesitation. Perfect for when you don't want to give up your expensive dev-board and you aren't willing to take apart the project you worked so hard to design.

This board uses the same form factor as the original ATtiny85-based Trinket with some upgrades. The Trinket M0 has swapped out the lightweight ATtiny85 for a ATSAMD21E18 powerhouse. It's just as small, and it's easier to use, so you can do more.

The most exciting part of the Trinket M0 is that while you can use it with the Arduino IDE, we are shipping it with CircuitPython on board. When you plug it in, it will show up as a very small disk drive with main.py on it. Edit main.py with your favorite text editor to build your project using Python, the most popular programming language. No installs, IDE or compiler needed, so you can use it on any computer, even ChromeBooks or computers you can't install software on. When you're done, unplug the Trinket M0 and your code will go with you. Please check out the Trinket M0 CircuitPython guide for a list of capabilities and quick-start code examples - CircuitPython is easier to code but not as low-level and complete as Arduino.

Here are some of the updates you can look forward to when using Trinket M0:

Native USB supported by every OS - can be used in Arduino or CircuitPython as USB serial console, Keyboard/Mouse HID, even a little disk drive for storing Python scripts. (ATtiny85 does not have native USB)

Can be used with Arduino IDE or CircuitPython

Built in green ON LED

Built in red pin #13 LED

Built in RGB DotStar LED

All 5 GPIO pins are available and are not shared with USB - so you can use them for whatever you like!

Five GPIO pins with digital input/output with internally connected pullups or pulldowns

Three of the I/O pins can be used for 12-bit analog input

True analog output on one I/O pin - can be used to play 10-bit quality audio clips

We gave the M0 pads the exact same names as the original Trinket so all your existing Arduino code will work exactly the same as-is without changes

Two high speed PWM outputs - for servos, LEDs, etc

Three pins can also be used as hardware capacitive touch sensors with no additional components required

Can drive NeoPixels or DotStars on any pins, with enough memory to drive 8000+ pixels. DMA-NeoPixel support on one pinso you can drive pixels without having to spend any processor time on it.

Native hardware SPI, I2C and Serial available on two pads so you can connect to any I2C or Serial device with true hardware support (no annoying bit-banging). You can have either one SPI device or both I2C and Serial.

Same Reset switch for starting your project code over

Power with either USB or external output (such as a battery) - it'll automatically switch over

Mounting holes

Really really small

Each order comes with one fully assembled and tested Trinket M0 with CircuitPython & example code programmed in.